Ambler is among the smartest cities in America

Ambler, Pa. is among the smartest cities in the United States, ranking 38th overall in a recent study by Lumosity, an online brain training and neuroscience research company.

Stanford, Calif. topped the list as smartest city in America. Princeton, N.J, another college town, placed second on the list.

Each city was ranked by its residents’ results from Lumosity’s games in five “Brain Areas”: speed, attention, flexibility, memory, and problem solving. To be in the data pool, users have to be been between 15 and 85 years old, and have played games in all five “Brain Areas”.

Geolocation was obtained through each user’s IP address the last time they logged in. The median score for each city was its overall score. The scores came from 3.3 million users.

State College, Pa. ranked 14 for overall city. Additionally, it ranked second in the under 35 and 35-55 age group rankings.

Many of smartest cites are college towns.

Evanston, Ill., the city where Northwestern is located, ranked fourth. Cambridge, Mass., city of Harvard University, ranks fifth, and Amherst, Mass. of Amherst University ranks seventh.

Click here is a link to the national rankings. Click here for a list of the top 100 smartest cities.